The CHSTM working group History of the Language Sciences has two upcoming meetings, in April and May. All meeting are held online. For further information and meeting link, see the working group website. The working group will resume in September 2025, after the northern summer break.
Tuesday, April 8, 2025, 9:00 – 10:30 am EDT (US)
Anna Schewelew (University of California, Santa Barbara) will be joining us to discuss research from her dissertation project. Anna’s research draws on translation theory, media theory and the history of science in order to examine assumptions about language, meaning, multilingualism and the act of reading that are implicit in machine translation systems. Her presentation will be informed by other interests that include mathematical and non-mathematical notions of probability in literature and art, fictions of translation, performance studies and the Soviet Cosmopolis.
Tuesday, May 13, 2025, 9:00 – 10:30 am EDT (US)
Bethany Anderson (University of Illinois) “Towards a (Cybernetic) Human Science’: Margaret Mead, Communication, and the Study of Culture at a Distance”
History and Philosophy of the Language Sciences 
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